Pipelines and Alternatives

The Energy East line, it is claimed, would allow Canadian crude to be refined in Canada – a nation-building project of epic scale, analogous to Sir John A. Macdonald’s forging of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Our Canada is in danger. And increasingly so. While various politicians assure us all is well with the true north, it isn’t. I hear it on the phone lines on my radio program weekly from folks in five provinces. It’s not just a quick visceral burn either. The frustration and anger are deeply seated.

In a heated exchange between Scheer and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in question period Wednesday over the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Andrew Scheer brought up the other energy project, Energy East, which was cancelled last year.